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Letter from the Director
As we approach the end of 2023, I want to thank all of you for being such wonderful colleagues, and for building a community of engaged, excited, and kind scientists who are creating an outstanding environment for education and discovery. I consider myself very fortunate to have the privilege of working with such a talented group of staff, students, postdocs, and faculty who are operating at the cutting edge of research in pathology, microbiology, and immunology. The Division of Molecular Pathogenesis is nationally recognized as an exemplar for a research division within a clinical department, and I thank you for contributing to our successes over the last year of which we can all be proud.
We have many reasons to be excited about 2024. Our research enterprise has moved PMI into the top 10 in NIH funding for Pathology departments nationwide, and our grant portfolio is strong and growing. We have added to our faculty ranks, and both the primary and secondary faculty in the Division continue to make paradigm-shifting discoveries that are being published in the highest profile journals.
The 3rd phase of renovations of the A corridors is essentially complete, bringing the total amount of remodeled space on the 4th and 5th floors to approximately 30,000 square feet. In addition, design of the MICRO BSL3 facility is completed and construction will hopefully start in the coming year. These new state-of-the-art facilities will not only enhance the research of our existing faculty but will help us attract the best and brightest new faculty to Vanderbilt. This effort will be aided by the recently awarded NIH FIRST grant that is targeting the recruitment of four new faculty to Vanderbilt in 2024 in the areas of Infection, Immunology, or Metabolism.
Division faculty received multiple new S10 awards this year including a Cytek Cell Sorter (housed in the Flow Cytometry Shared Resource), a Nikon Muli-Photon Microscope, and a JEOL electron microscope (both housed in CISR). These new instruments will dramatically expand our research and training capabilities.
Our graduate student and postdoctoral fellow training programs continue to be a crown jewel of our Division, and the MHI/MPI graduate programs are now the largest training program in the biomedical sciences at Vanderbilt.
Of course, none of this would be possible without the incredible backing of our amazing administrative team who provided spectacular support as we navigated the shift to Workday. I look forward to working with you all to have another outstanding year for MP!
Thank you to everyone for being part of this fantastic Division. On behalf of myself, my family, and my lab, Happy New Year!
-Eric
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Back again for its 3rd year, Mock Interview Day will provide biomedical PhD students and postdocs the opportunity to practice their interview skills with employers and alumni, (including faculty, if appropriate), and receive valuable feedback. Each participant will have up to 4 mock interviews, each lasting about 30 minutes.
Priority application deadline: Wednesday, January 3 at noon.
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Gut microbiota metabolite protects against obesity: studyBacteria residing in the small intestines — the gut microbiota — produce a compound that protects against obesity, Vanderbilt researchers have discovered. The findings in a mouse model, reported in the journal Cell Host & Microbe, shed light on how disturbances in the microbiota, such as early-life exposure to antibiotics, increase risk for childhood obesity.
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| The Pie-a-PI donation drive for Second Harvest Food Bank was an icredible success,
raising over 450 donations of nonperishable goods!
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The Division Congratulations to participating faculty who contributed to 35 publications, posted on PubMed last month!
Business Meeting & Chalk Talk October 24th, Kathleen Gould, PhD
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Know anyone celebrating a workiversary in February?
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| PMI Seminars return in the spring!
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| VI4 Seminars Return on February 6th!
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MHI
Journal Club
MHI Journal Club returns in the spring!
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| Immunology Journal Club returns in the spring!
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MP faculty publications: December 2023 - Jennings J, Bracey H, Nguyen DT, Dasgupta R, Rivera AV, Sluis-Cremer N, Shi J, Aiken C
bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2023 Nov 9:2023.11.08.566350. - Shuman JHB, Lin AS, Westland MD, Bryant KN, Piazuelo MB, Reyzer ML, Judd AM, McDonald WH, McClain MS, Schey KL, Algood HMS, Cover TL.
mSystems. 2023 Dec 7:e0109823. - Matthay MA, Schmidt EP, Bastarache JA, Calfee CS, Frevert CW, Martin TR.
Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2023 Dec 13. - Alsaidalani AA, García-Solís B, Bukhari E, Van Den Rym A, López-Collazo E, Sánchez-Ramón S, Corvillo F, López-Lera A, de Andrés A, Martínez-Barricarte R, Perez de Diego R.
J Clin Immunol. 2023 Dec 22;44(1):13. - Zehr EP, Erzen CL, Oshima K, Langouët-Astrié CJ, LaRiviere WB, Shi D, Zhang F, McCollister BD, Windham SL, Rizzo AN, Bastarache JA, Horswill AR, Schmidt EP, Kwiecinski JM, Colbert JF.
Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2023 Dec 19 - Schwarz EM, Archer NK, Atkins GJ, Bentley KLM, Botros M, Cassat JE, Chisari E, Coraça-Huber DC, Daiss JL, Gill SR, Goodman SB, Harro J, Hernandez CJ, Ivashkiv LB, Kates SL, Marques CNH, Masters EA, Muthukrishnan G, Owen JR, Raafat D, Saito M, Veis DJ, Xie C.
Orthop Res. 2023 Dec 16. - Good CJ, Butrico CE, Colley ME, Gibson-Corley KN, Cassat JE, Spraggins JM, Caprioli RM
bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2023 Dec 2:2023.12.01.569690. - Rajagopala SV, Shilts MH, Correa H, Das SR, Choksi YA, Jacobse J, Goettel JA, Hiremath G.
J Pediatr Pharmacol Ther. 2023;28(6):504-508. - Winthrop KL, Mease P, Kerschbaumer A, Voll RE, Breedveld FC, Smolen JS, Gottenberg JE, Baraliakos X, Kiener HP, Aletaha D, Isaacs JD, Buch MH, Crow MK, Kay J, Crofford L, van Vollenhoven RF, Ospelt C, Siebert S, Kloppenburg M, McInnes IB, Huizinga TW, Gravallese EM
Ann Rheum Dis. 2023 Dec 20:ard-2023-224916 - Adams LJ, VanBlargan LA, Liu Z, Gilchuk P, Zhao H, Chen RE, Raju S, Chong Z, Whitener BM, Shrihari S, Jethva PN, Gross ML, Crowe JE Jr, Whelan SPJ, Diamond MS, Fremont DH.
Cell Rep Med. 2023 Dec 19;4(12):101305. - Vukovich MJ, Raju N, Kgagudi P, Manamela NP, Abu-Shmais AA, Gripenstraw KR, Wasdin PT, Shen X, Dwyer B, Akoad J, Lynch RM, Montefiori DC, Richardson SI, Moore PL, Georgiev IS.
J Virol. 2023 Dec 12:e0147823. - Latour YL, McNamara KM, Allaman MM, Barry DP, Smith TM, Asim M, Williams KJ, Hawkins CV, Jacobse J, Goettel JA, Delgado AG, Piazuelo MB, Washington MK, Gobert AP, Wilson KT.
Sci Rep. 2023 Dec 15;13(1):22368. - Bermudez TA, Brannon JR, Dudipala N, Reasoner S, Morales G, Wiebe M, Cecala M, DaCosta M, Beebout C, Amir O, Hadjifrangiskou M.
Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2023 Dec 11:e0080323. - Binari LA, Thorne P, Rega SA, Feurer ID, Shawar S, Naik R, Birdwell KA, Helderman JH, Langone A, Sarrell BA, Schaefer H, DuBray BJ, Eid K, Hickman L, Shaffer D, Concepcion BP, Forbes RC.
Transpl Infect Dis. 2023 Dec 19:e14213. - Simner PJ, Burnham C-AD, Humphries RM, Miller MB, Theel ES, McAdam AJ.
J Clin Microbiol. 2023 Dec 22:e0141723 - Norlander AE, Abney M, Cephus JY, Roe CE, Irish JM, Shelburne NJ, Newcomb DC, Hemnes AR, Peebles RS Jr.
Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2023 Dec 1;208(11):1249-1250. - Bewersdorf JP, Shallis RM, Sharon E, Park S, Ramaswamy R, Roe CE, Irish JM, Caldwell A, Wei W, Yacoub A, Madanat YF, Zeidner JF, Altman JK, Odenike O, Yerrabothala S, Kovacsovics T, Podoltsev NA, Halene S, Little RF, Piekarz R, Gore SD, Kim TK, Zeidan AM.
Ann Hematol. 2023 Dec 1. - Kim TK, Han X, Hu Q, Vandsemb EN, Fielder CM, Hong J, Kim KW, Mason EF, Plowman RS, Wang J, Wang Q, Zhang JP, Badri T, Sanmamed MF, Zheng L, Zhang T, Alawa J, Lee SW, Zeidan AM, Halene S, Pillai MM, Chandhok NS, Lu J, Xu ML, Gore SD, Chen L.
J Clin Invest. 2023 Dec 7:e164325. - Heiser CN, Simmons AJ, Revetta F, McKinley ET, Ramirez-Solano MA, Wang J, Kaur H, Shao J, Ayers GD, Wang Y, Glass SE, Tasneem N, Chen Z, Qin Y, Kim W, Rolong A, Chen B, Vega PN, Drewes JL, Markham NO, Saleh N, Nikolos F, Vandekar S, Jones AL, Washington MK, Roland JT, Chan KS, Schürpf T, Sears CL, Liu Q, Shrubsole MJ, Coffey RJ, Lau KS.
Cell. 2023 Dec 7;186(25):5620-5637.e16. - Browning KR, Merrikh H
mBio. 2023 Dec 14:e0273723 - Virostko J, Wright JJ, Williams JM, Hilmes MA, Triolo TM, Broncucia H, Du L, Kang H, Nallaparaju S, Valencia LG, Reyes D, Hammel B, Russell WE, Philipson LH, Waibel M, Kay TWH, Thomas HE, Greeley SAW, Steck AK, Powers AC, Moore DJ.
Diabetes Care. 2023 Dec 27:dc231681. - Laklai H, Miroshnikova YA, Pickup MW, Collisson EA, Kim GE, Barrett AS, Hill RC, Lakins JN, Schlaepfer DD, Mouw JK, LeBleu VS, Roy N, Novitskiy SV, Johansen JS, Poli V, Kalluri R, Iacobuzio-Donahue CA, Wood LD, Hebrok M, Hansen K, Moses HL, Weaver VM
Nat Med. 2023 Nov 28 - Davies JP, Sivadas A, Keller KR, Roman BK, Wojcikiewicz RJH, Plate L.
J Proteome Res. 2023 Dec 1. - Chaib M, Holt JR, Fisher EL, Sipe LM, Bohm MS, Joseph SC, Simmons BW, Eugin Simon S, Yarbro JR, Tanveer U, Halle JL, Carson JA, Hollingsworth TJ, Wei Q, Rathmell JC, Thomas PG, Hayes DN, Makowski L.
Sci Adv. 2023 Dec 22;9(51):eadd3231. - Bacigalupa ZA, Landis MD, Rathmell JC.
Cell Metab. 2023 Dec 12:S1550-4131(23)00460-6 - Bishay S, Robb WH, Schwartz TM, Smith DS, Lee LH, Lynn CJ, Clark TL, Jefferson AL, Warner JL, Rosenthal EL, Murphy BA, Hohman TJ, Koran MEI.
J Neuroimaging. 2023 Dec 26. - Kondo T, Nishio N, Park JS, Mani LD, Naveed A, Tanaka H, Lewis JS Jr, Rosenthal EL, Hom ME.
Mol Imaging Biol. 2023 Dec 6. - Reasoner SA, Flores V, Van Horn G, Morales G, Peard LM, Abelson B, Manuel C, Lee J, Baker B, Williams T, Schmitz JE, Clayton DB, Hadjifrangiskou M.
NPJ Biofilms Microbiomes. 2023 Dec 1;9(1):91. - Colazo JM, Prasad K, Miller A, Sharif K, Aweeda M, Fassler C, Singh R, Schwartz HS, Lawrenz JM, Holt GE, Topf MC.
Ann Surg Oncol. 2023 Dec 22. - Skaar EP
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2023 Dec 12;120(50):e2318509120. - Sriram S, Kumar MS, Shourie GK, Palukurthi A, Kadam S, Srikanth TM.
Regul Toxicol Pharmacol. 2023 Dec 25:105538. - Wu Q, Sheng Q, Michell D, Ramirez-Solano M, Posey O, Phothisane A, Shaik S, Vickers KC, Ormseth MJ.
Arthritis Rheumatol. 2023 Dec 18. - Wu L, Shi FD, Van Kaer L.
Front Immunol. 2023 Oct 31;14:1323486. - Al Tuhaifi T, Zhong J, Yang HC, Fogo AB.
Lab Invest. 2023 Dec 16:100305 - Spiga L, Winter MG, Muramatsu MK, Rojas VK, Chanin RB, Zhu W, Hughes ER, Taylor SJ, Faber F, Porwollik S, Carvalho TF, Qin T, Santos RL, Andrews-Polymenis H, McClelland M, Winter SE.
bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2023 Dec 8:2023.12.08.570695
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